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I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

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Michael Phelps
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: June 30
Swimmer
Baltimore
Maryland
Michael Fred Phelps II
The Baltimore Bullet
Flying Fish
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Swimming
Anywhere
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